Sentence examples for voluntary enlistment from inspiring English sources
Concern for their families' standard of living made men hesitate to enlist; voluntary enlistment rates went up after the government guaranteed a weekly stipend for life to the survivors of men who were killed or disabled.
The United States, which allows voluntary enlistment at 17, has not yet ratified the treaty.
Another special case was Britain, which continued its peacetime conscription until 1960, when it was replaced by voluntary enlistment and the idea of a mass army was virtually abandoned.
A shift in the 1970s from a military draft to voluntary enlistment may have produced a so-called healthy warrior phenomenon in recent years, said Dr. Bryant J. Webber of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md, who led the current study.
It was distributed among civilians; and since the conviction on the first count has been abandoned here by the government, we have no occasion to consider whether the leaflet might have discouraged voluntary enlistment or obedience to the provisions of the Selective Draft Act.
In the United States there exists a familiar naval reserve composed of men who have retired from active service or who, after voluntary enlistment, receive periodic training.
Both sides initially relied on voluntary enlistments, but both had eventually to resort to conscription to maintain their vast armies in the field.
By that time voluntary enlistments, though massive, had nevertheless proved to be inadequate to meet Britain's needs, so in January 1916, by the Military Service Act, voluntary service was replaced by conscription.
So in addition to extending the deployment of many of the troops already in the war zones, the Army announced that it would prevent soldiers from leaving the service -- even if their voluntary enlistments were up -- if their units were scheduled to go to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Despite the numbers cited by the government of those killed, captured or defected, Farc has been able to replace many of those losses, year after year, both through voluntary enlistments and through forced recruitment, particularly of child soldiers.
